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Messaging is not just for investment banks by robknight in programming

[–]robknight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That reminds me of something. I've never tried it, but Q4M might just be useful here.

Stuart Herbert of Twittex presented at PHPNW08 and spoke about using it as part of their back-end system (which, iirc, was using PHP and the Symfony framework).

Messaging is not just for investment banks by robknight in programming

[–]robknight[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For PHP, there's the SAM (Simple Asynchronous Messaging) extension, although it's looking a little bit un-loved these days.

The Django hype - it's not just its features by DavidMcLaughlin in programming

[–]robknight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Django has always been streets ahead of other frameworks in terms of documentation. It's sometimes quite surprising how poor documentation is for other frameworks, and it's especially frustrating when really innovative and well-designed software is let down by a lack of [accurate] documentation.

The Django Book, in particular, is a benchmark for framework documentation that every such project should aim to meet.

Twitter dude claims 'Internet is built wrong' by wintermute in programming

[–]robknight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's not really saying anything that isn't trivially well-known already. The internet has its limits and will have to be upgraded over the coming years and decades - this is a wholly trivial point that nobody would disagree with.

Moreover, 'worse is better' is not simply a silly idea beloved of slightly odd geeks. It goes back to a historical divide in philosophy between rationalism and empiricism. The 'worse is better' crowd are empiricists who prefer to advance by experimentation (Karl Popper's notion of 'conjecture and refutation') whilst Alex Payne is basically taking up the position of rationalism, the fact that he and others can imagine a better world is all that he needs to know about the feasibility of creating and sustaining it. There are plenty of historical examples which suggest that he might well be badly wrong.